To end secret wars, you have to start with ending secrecy. A shroud of official secrecy has long enabled the Saudi coalition’s criminal war in Yemen, which has killed thousands of civilians and deliberately starved millions. It has enabled the coalition to avoid compensating the U.S. government for $331 million in refueling costs. The gratis...
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Two Russians Arrested for Selling Information that Identified Skripal Poisoning Suspects
A Russian news site is reporting the arrest of two government officials for allegedly selling information that helped link two GRU officers to the poisoning of a turncoat Russian agent in England
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ICYMI: bellingcat’s Russia scoop
This Investigative Outlet Was Accused of Pushing ‘War Propaganda’ — But Its Major Scoop Has Been Confirmed | Alternet
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AP Confirms Bellingcat: Russian Suspect in UK Poisoning, Is Hero to His Home Village
“Alexander Petrov,” a Russian man accused of an assassination attempt in England, is actually a decorated GRU officer named Alexander Mishkin. The story, first reported by Bellingcat, the crowd-sourced investigative site, and The Insider, a Moscow-based news site, has now been confirmed. AP reporter Nataliya Vasilyeva went to Mishkin’s home town and discovered it was...
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How Bellingcat and Russia Insider Unmasked a Suspected Assassin
The crowdsourced investigative site Bellingcat and The Insider (in Russian) have beat their legacy competitors on the story of the Skripal assassination suspects.